Q: iCloud: 2 universes for 2 users on 1 mac (sierra)
My husband and I share one PowerMac. We each have our own iPad and iPhone. We each have a separate Apple ID, iCloud account and storage plans. We want our one PowerMac to support our two iCloud/two Apple ID separate universes. That way, certain content on our mac , accessed with User 1's Apple ID and iCloud drive is linked to and can be synced with User 1's Apple mobile devices. And, content accessed with User 2's Apple ID and iCloud drive is linked to and can be synced with User 2's Apple mobile devices. Basically, I don't want some of his stuff on my devices and he doesn't want some of my stuff on his devices. By stuff, I mean music, books, photos, videos, emails, messages, even bookmarks and reading lists. We would like to share some information on the mac, like contacts, passwords (keychain?), calendar, some photos, folders and business-related content. Most of the music library (which he doesn't want) is saved on separate drive.
When I tried to sync my iPad with our mac, his iCloud account appeared to be at the top of the hierarchy on the mac. I was prompted to sign out his iCloud account and sign in mine. But when I signed into my iCloud account, I saw the message that I'm already signed into my iCloud account. This caused his email on the mac to disappear as well as everything else under his iCloud account. Family sharing under the iCloud setting doesn't provide the solution because it also requires one primary (the organizer) account. We want separate but equal iCloud universes on the mac. Any suggestions?
PowerMac, macOS Sierra (10.12)
Posted on Oct 1, 2016 4:43 PM